What are the responsibilities and job description for the Peer Specialist Advocate position at Tri-County Human Services?
Job Summary
The Peer Specialist will provide direct input, from a consumer's perspective, regarding the transformation of community services. As a sounding board for individuals' issues and concerns, they will serve as a role model competency in recovery and ongoing coping skills. This role will involve providing individualized case management services (linkages to medical, community, and specialty services) as needed by the person served.
Key Responsibilities
The Peer Specialist will provide direct input, from a consumer's perspective, regarding the transformation of community services. As a sounding board for individuals' issues and concerns, they will serve as a role model competency in recovery and ongoing coping skills. This role will involve providing individualized case management services (linkages to medical, community, and specialty services) as needed by the person served.
Key Responsibilities
- Attend and participate in community forums dealing with substance abuse and mental health issues and concerns.
- Speak to individuals regarding services received and provide feedback to both the department and providers.
- Assist providers in developing role recovery objectives that meet individual progress towards their goals.
- Discuss with individuals areas within the provider's service delivery that need targeted improvement.
- Engage individuals to talk about their experiences to promote understanding of life experiences and their effects on functioning and to promote hope for recovery.
- Develop rapport with persons involved in the criminal justice system, who have alcohol, addiction, mental health issues or who have other behavioral/emotional difficulties.
- Assist with enrollment for services provided by community behavioral health providers.
- Assist provider staff in identifying program environments that are conducive to recovery; lend their unique insight into mental illness and what makes recovery possible.
- Assist in peer group support utilizing the Illness Management and Recovery model to facilitate problem solving, communication skills development and personal growth.
- Provide services with areas of competency, i.e. life experience, training, certification, education or other background in the service area. Seek direction from clinicians when needs fall outside areas of competency.
- Assist in completing and maintaining a personal recovery plan which includes identified person-centered strengths, needs, abilities, and goals, interventions to assist the person served in reaching these goals and progress made toward these goals.
- Attend treatment teams meetings as requested to promote and support consumer's insight to recovery as directed.
